On today's date in 1946: After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the streets of La Paz. 
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On today's date in 1568: Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 230: Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1867: The United States Congress established the Indian Peace Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native American tribes. 
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On today's date in 1976: The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission. 
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On today's date in 911: Rollo lays siege to Chartres. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1982: Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses. 
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On today's date in 1588: Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1817: Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire. 
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On today's date in 1544: Italian War of 1542-46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins. #history #grownostr
On today's date in -477: Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman-Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1391: Tokhtamysh-Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1936: Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War. 
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On today's date in -387: Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1989: American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California. 
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On today's date in 1981: A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse (damage pictured), killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. 
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On today's date in 1203: The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1862: The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1048: Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2007: An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. 
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On today's date in 1054: Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1782: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes". 
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